Artist study · running live
Every piece below is not a screenshot. It is the original program — the same one that minted the token — running in your browser, right now, decoding a single hash into a single composition.
Meridian's stratified horizons, the wandering coastlines of Subscapes, FOLIO's concrete-poetry marks: three of the defining works of on-chain generative art, plus the writing, talks and open-source tools that made them possible.
Matt DesLauriers — generative artist & creative coder · mattdesl.com · github · @mattdesl
The on-chain work above is only part of it. DesLauriers moves fluidly between chains, print and film — and it started on Tezos.
DesLauriers writes and speaks about his process with unusual clarity — the tools, the failures, the aesthetics of algorithms. A few starting points.
The infrastructure under a generation of generative art. canvas-sketch alone is how a huge share of the field learned to make, export and print work.